On 15. February 2006 drummer Johan Lei Gellett wrote me a mail requesting me to come to make a photoseries of his new band, Boat Man Love, when they performed in Pumpehuset some 10 days later.
I knew him from the Kira & The Kindred Spirits-days and had met him a couple of times since then.
He promised that I would like their music, and in the view of the band members and their past he didn't have to convince me.
I knew front singer, Lars Skjærbæk, from Tim Christensen's backing band and from one of my favorite Danish bands, Stripclubjunkies. His brother, bassplayer Troels Skjærbæk, and himself, played in Inside The Whale. I remember guitarist, Søren Koch, from Marie Frank Band and the Beatles cover band, Beat The Meetles.

Frankly speaking, this is the best new band I've heard for several years!
They had a sound similar to the sound by which Bob Dylan shocked the World when he went electric in July 1965. Outside Looking In sounds much like the Dylan song, Tell Me, Momma from that period. And Christine's Tune sounds like a Rolling Stone song, Begger's Banquet-style. I'm not the one that complains about that, cause I love that sound!
We also got a real Dylan-cover, If You Gotta Go, Go Now, - excellent! We both got the 60's style tunes and some splended ballads such as, My Pretty Blue, Miss Ohio and Dead And Gone, the latter almost like a Daniel Lanois-tune. A very varied performance.

Let me repeat my statement: This band is the best band I've seen on the Danish music scene for a couple of years.
You can visit their site here.

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